Description

TQ 53 3 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (east side),
OLD GROOMBRIDGE
16/499 Mill House

GV II*

Former miller's house. Probably late C17 with some minor later alterations.
Timber-framed. Ground floor is underbuilt with English bond red brick with a
large number of burnt headers giving a banded effect in places. Frame above
hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: 2-room lobby entrance plan house facing north north west, say north.
Central axial stack serving slightly larger left (east) room. Stair rises to
rear of stack in probably secondary 2-storey outshots. The Mill (q.v.)
adjoins to left and until the C20 the mill race ran by the back of the house.

2 storeys with attics in roofspace of main block.

Exterior: Nearly symmetrical 3-window front of old casements containing
diamond panes of leaded glass (particularly small panes in the hip-roofed
dormers). Central front doorway contains a plain plank door under a shallow
flat-roofed hood. Roof is half-hipped both ends. Rear elevation more recent
but 3-window elevation in same style with half dormers.

Interior: Only limited internal inspection was available at the time of this
survey. Main ground floor room has a large brick fireplace with an oak
lintel. This lintel and the crossbeam are chamfered with scroll stops.

Mill House is one of the very important group of listed buildings in Old
Groombridge.

Listing NGR: TQ5306037579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547478

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